Petro ATC - South Region

Master Agreement GC843 provides petroleum contamination site response action services throughout Florida's South Region under the authority of Section 376.30711, Florida Statutes, and is funded through the Inland Protection Trust Fund (IPTF) with approximately $125 million in annual direct cleanup expenditures. The contract encompasses comprehensive services across all phases of petroleum site remediation, including site assessment, remedial options evaluation and design, remedial action implementation, and site closure activities. Specific services include site characterization, drilling and boring operations, well installation and abandonment, sample collection and laboratory analysis, soil source removal, petroleum storage tank removal and disposal, debris and waste management, remediation system construction and operation, and preparation of technical reports. Work assignments are structured through fixed-price pay item rates, cost-reimbursable methodologies with a 6% handling fee, and negotiated professional engineering and geology services, with no minimum work volume guaranteed to the contractor.

BTEX Engineering, Inc., serves as the prime contractor for this Master Agreement, with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) as the contracting organization. The contract was originally executed on February 25, 2014, with an initial five-year term and a renewal option for an additional five years contingent upon satisfactory performance. The contract type is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Agency Term Contract, with the most recent amendment extending performance through June 30, 2025. The contract operates as a statewide vehicle serving Florida's South Region, with compensation based on a detailed Schedule of Pay Items (Attachment D) comprising over 230 line items. Additional contract provisions include provisions allowing annual rate increases not exceeding 5% after an initial 24-month freeze, maximum 25% retainage pending satisfactory completion of deliverables, and liquidated damages of 0.5% per week for late deliverables.